The end is near

Hello!!!

So this is the last week of the year and I think I’m in the mood of reviewing movies.

I think I’m one of those people that like almost everything but I can admit when a movie I like is quite bad and also I have the quality of disliking movies that everybody loves, like La vita è bella, yeah I know, I’m out of my mind.

I don’t want to talk about just one movie. I think I would like to talk about a genre, and I think that maybe Thriller/Horror movies are a good one.

I loooove scary movies, even the gore ones. The good thing about horror movies even if the movie is really bad you can have fun watching it, maybe not the kind of fun the maker of the movie intended, but who cares? I am that kind of person who yells at the TV telling the people who are going to die to run, and not believing how stupid some characters are, and I have tons of fun doing it. But there are a few movies that scared me and those are the ones who deserve a comment today.

For me the scariest ones are those who are remakes of some Japanese movie, yeah maybe the original one is better, but I don’t know that the movie is a remake until long after I saw the USA version.  So for me The Ring, The Grudge and Dark Water are great, maybe Dark Water isn’t that great, but I like it, and I’m sure that I am missing a lot of great Japanese horror movies.  Then we have the Spanish ones, like REC, El Orfanato, Los ojos de Julia, The Others and Tesis. I didn’t see the American version of REC but I think is exactly the same. Then we have the “regular” ones, this are hard because some of them I think are quite good but in the verge of being totally awful, like Resident Evil, Saw, Scream and Final Destination, I know you are reading this with a WTF face, but remember I know I like bad movies, I think that the first movies of every one I just name are good movies, then the sequels… are another story, well actually I like Saw 2 better than the first one. The Sixth Sense, 28 days later, 28 weeks later, Paranormal Activity, The Bair Witch Project, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Omen, The hills have eyes, etc.

All the Hitchcock movies: The Birds, Vertigo, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, etc. I’m sorry but I fell asleep watching Psycho. Stephen King movies: Carrie, The Shining and Pet Sematary. We have also the exorcism movies: The Exorcist, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Last Exorcism and The Rite.  

So yes every one of those movies have made me at least jump a little bit in my seat, there are like 20 more horror movies out there that I have seen but I don’t remember, I have list like 30 and I think that is enough. Also there are scary movies I didn’t consider maybe because I think they are science fiction, or suspense more than horror.

So if you think I have missed some extraordinary movie, tell me, maybe I haven’t seen it yet.

Have a great new year’s eve.